Program. EU U.S. Conference Series Sustainable Oceans: Reconciling Economic Use and Protection

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1 1 Program EU U.S. Conference Series Sustainable Oceans: Reconciling Economic Use and Protection Conference No. 1 The Use of the Oceans Energy Resources, Risk Management, and the Need for Regulation Hamburg, June 29 - July 1, 2011 Under the High Patronage of S.A.S. Le Prince Albert II de Monaco Supported by European Commission, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Brussels ALDEBARAN Marine Research & Broadcast, Hamburg Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Research, Bremerhaven German Marine Research Consortium (KDM), Berlin World Ocean Council, Honolulu, HI

2 2 Wednesday, June 29, :00 pm Reception and Dinner at the invitation of Deerberg-Systems, Oldenburg, Germany Dinner Speech Dr. Wendy Watson-Wright Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission UNESCO, Paris, France Global Governance of the Changing Oceans: Risk Tolerance and the Science Policy Gap Thursday, June 30, :00 am Welcome by the Organizers: Professor Dieter Feddersen Member of the Board, Dräger Foundation, Lübeck, Germany Professor Peter Schlosser Associate Director and Director of Research, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA and Words of Greeting 9:30 am Session 1 Dr. Dorothee Stapelfeldt Second Mayor and Senator for Science and Research of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany Achim Steiner (video message) Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya PRICING THE OCEANS - The value of ocean ecosystems (barrier reefs, living resources, biodiversity) - The value of known and supposed mineral resources in the oceans - Economic gains and losses from exploitation - Ecological and social costs of ecosystem damages (due to mining activities, oil spills, pollution) Keynote: Dr. Pushpam Kumar Chief, Ecosystem Services Economics Unit, Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya Frank Schweikert CEO, ALDEBARAN Marine Research & Broadcast, Hamburg, Germany

3 3 Commentators: Professor Tony Haymet Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego; Vice Chancellor for Marine Science and Dean, UC San Diego Graduate School of Marine Science, San Diego, CA, USA Dr. Régis Kalaydjian Project Manager, Marine Economics Unit, IFREMER French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea, Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex, France Professor Martin Visbeck Deputy Director, IFM-GEOMAR; Head of Research Unit Physical Oceanography, Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany 11:00 am Coffee Break 11:30 am Session 2 MANAGING OFFSHORE ENERGY RESOURCES RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES - What is sustainable use in terms of marine resources? - Oil & gas exploration and production - Alternative energies from the ocean - Risk analysis and risk management; risks and opportunities of extreme technologies - Maritime safety - Crisis prevention mechanisms and crisis handling instruments in the US and in Europe - International cooperation - What can we learn from each other? Brent Goff Senior News Anchor, Deutsche Welle (DW), Berlin, Germany Dr. Udo Barckhausen Private Lecturer, BGR (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources), Hanover, Germany Dr. Quenton R. Dokken President and CEO, Gulf of Mexico Foundation, Corpus Christi, TX, USA Jan Pánek Head of Unit "Coal & Oil", Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Dr. Michael Zettlitzer General Manager, Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment, RWE Dea AG, Hamburg, Germany 1:00 pm Lunch

4 4 2:00 pm Session 3 MARINE GOVERNANCE OF ENERGY RESOURCES LEGAL REGULATION & INSTITUTIONS - Stewardship for oceans; who should be responsible for the oceans? - Impact assessment and licensing of exploration and extraction - Legal regulation, surveillance, criminalization of damages, penalization; are the present mechanisms and bodies sufficient? The Honorable Dr. hon. mult. Hans Corell Ret. Ambassador; Former Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, Stockholm, Sweden The Honorable Professor Vladimir Golitsyn Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany Vladimír Jareš Senior Legal Officer, Division of Ocean Affairs & the Law of the Sea (DOALOS), Office of Legal Affairs, United Nations; Deputy Secretary, Commission of the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New York, NY, USA Professor Doris König Public Law, European Union Law and International Law, Bucerius Law School; Chair, International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (IFLOS), Hamburg, Germany 3:30 pm Coffee Break 4:00 pm Session 4 FINANCING THE PROTECTION OF THE OCEANS - The effects of human activities on marine resources and collateral damage - What does it cost? - Who pays the costs? Who bears the risks? - Who benefits from exploiting the oceans energy resources? - How should benefits be allocated? - Financing instruments Sandra Cavalieri Coordinator, Arctic and Transatlantic Programmes, Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany Dr. Susan K. Avery President and Director, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA Dr. Iris Menn Oceans and Biodiversity Campaigner, Greenpeace e.v., Hamburg, Germany Professor Hans J. Peters Adjunct Faculty Member, School of Public Policy, George Mason University; former Lead Arranger and Chief Advisor, The World Bank Group, Washington, D.C., USA

5 5 7:00 pm Reception and Dinner Welcome Paul Nemitz Head of Unit, Maritime Policy in the Atlantic, Arctic and Outermost Regions, European Commission, DG MARE, Brussels, Belgium Dinner Speech Friday, July 1, 2011 Professor Nuno Lourenço R&D Coordinator, The Task Group for Maritime Affairs (EMAM), Paço de Arcos, Portugal 9:00 am Session 5 The Portuguese Maritime Strategy: A New Era of Discoveries Frank Schweikert Director, ALDEBARAN Marine Research & Broadcast, Hamburg, Germany Introduction of the German Oceans Foundation Guests: Jugend musiziert (Youth plays music) The Auerbach Quartett ARCTIC CHALLENGES: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN THE USE OF ARCTIC RESOURCES - The future of the Arctic Council - Exploitation and perspectives for oil, gas and shipping in times of rapid climate change - Mining the Arctic: costs and benefits for the indigenous peoples - The protection of the Arctic marine environment - Why Europe needs the Arctic the development of an EU Arctic policy - The business perspective John B. Richardson Special Adviser on Maritime Affairs, FIPRA International, Brussels, Belgium Dr. Terry Fenge Consultant on Arctic, Environmental and Aboriginal Affairs; Principal, Terry Fenge Consulting Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada Professor Karin Lochte Chair, German Marine Research Consortium (KDM); Director, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, Bremerhaven, Germany Professor Peter Schlosser Associate Director and Director of Research, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Kirsten Ullbæk Selvig Director General, Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Oslo, Norway

6 6 The Honorable Dr. Anton Vasiliev Ambassador at Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia Steffen Weber Co-Founder and Secretary General, EU-ARCTIC-Forum; Chief Adviser, Arctic Report, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium 11:00 am Coffee Break 11:30 am Session 6 TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION IN OCEAN GOVERNANCE - Who are the important players? - Bringing the stakeholders on board - Which role does Europe want to play? - The U.S. Joint Ocean Commission Initiative A model for a future European Ocean Commission? - Potentials for transatlantic cooperation R. Andreas Kraemer Director, Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany Laura Cantral Senior Mediator and Program Director, Joint Ocean Commission Initiative, Meridian Institute, Washington, D.C., USA Professor Biliana Cicin-Sain Director, Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy; Professor of Marine Policy, University of Delaware s College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment; President, Global Oceans Forum, Newark, DE, USA Paul Holthus Executive Director, World Ocean Council, Honolulu, HI, USA Dr. Tiago Pitta e Cunha Counselor for the Environment, Science and Maritime Affairs to the President of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal 1:00 pm Closing Remarks Professor Dieter Feddersen Member of the Board, Dräger Foundation, Lübeck, Germany Speakers: Dr. Robert B. Gagosian President and CEO, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, D.C., USA The New U.S. Ocean Policy and the Global Ocean Observing System A Model for Transatlantic Cooperation

7 7 Paul F. Nemitz Head of Unit, Maritime Policy in the Atlantic, Arctic and Outermost Regions, DG MARE, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Europe as the Driving Force behind Sustainable and Smart Use of Ocean Resources 1:45 pm Lunch and End of the Conference